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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Los Angeles municipal elections last week, candidates of the End Poverty In California party took a terrific beating, won only four out of 18 contested offices. From San Francisco the conservative Chronicle sardonically observed that in the city where EPIC was founded a year ago the voters were apparently tired of "magic hocus-pocus." But undaunted Upton Sinclair, emerging from several weeks' confinement in a sanitorium, declared: "The outcome of this election will not affect in the least our plans to spread the EPIC movement throughout the country." He promised that an EPIC convention in Los Angeles this week...
...Arrested in Kobe was Mark A. Pierce, a substantial citizen of Los Angeles and onetime police commissioner, on a holiday in Japan. As his tourist ship was sailing through the Inland Sea, a detective had seen him taking photographs, which when developed showed a passing warship. He was severely questioned ten hours a day for eleven days, taken to a hotel at night. Japanese police thought they had hit on something real when they found in Pierce's baggage a scroll showing that Mark Pierce is entitled to be called "Colonel" in the State of Kentucky. Other suspicious facts...
...Los Angeles last week one Dr. Ralph Wiliard froze a guinea pig solid, then revived it. The guinea pig immediately nibbled a piece of spinach, apparently none the worse for refrigeration. Dr. Wiliard, 32, a swarthy, Russian-born chemist, next proposed to freeze & revive a dog, then a monkey, then an ape, then perhaps a human. His ultimate purpose: "To use freezing to kill bacteria of certain diseases while retaining suspended life in the tissues...
First tri-motor to cross the Rockies in regular passenger service, it was originally bought by John Maddux for his Los Angeles-San Francisco airline, later by T. A. T.-Maddux for transcontinental service. Placed in Penn Station as a living advertisement for air travel, it had long ago ceased to be anything more than a curio. Last week 30 students from the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics at Newark removed the old-fashioned wicker chairs from the cabin, dismantled the wings, motors, fuselage, shipped the parts to Dearborn, Mich, where they will be reassembled as a permanent exhibit...
...Los Angeles, where the post office was handling 200,000 chain letters per day, it was discovered that school children were going hungry because they were frittering their lunch money on their own chains...